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CHAPTER VI.

LEWIS CASS,

THE COURTEOUS.

IT is an invigorating exercise, to attempt the analytical portraiture of great logical powers; and it is an exhilarating one, to describe adroit talents employed in splendid declamation. But, to many persons, it is not less pleasing to contemplate simple statesmanship habitually adorned with decided good nature.

We propose to sketch the career of General Cass as a civilian, military chieftain, and patriotic statesman. He was born in Exeter, New Hampshire, Oct. 9th, 1782. His ancestors were among the first settlers of that part of the country. It is said that his father bore a commission in the revolutionary army, which he joined the day after the battle of Lexington, and in which he continued until the close of the war, having borne a part in the battles of Bunker Hill, Saratoga, Trenton, Princeton, Monmouth, and Germantown. In 1799, he moved with his family to Ohio, and settled in the vicinity of Zanesville, where, after a life of honor and usefulness, he died, August, 1830.

The son of whom we are speaking, was educated